Missile Defense Agency plans new non-intercept flight test in January

摘要

The Missile Defense Agency will hold a Ground-based Midcourse Defense program test later this month, according to its director. During a Jan. 19 event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Vice Adm. James Syring announced that MDA would conduct a non-intercept flight test ~ dubbed Controlled Test Vehicle (CTV)-02+ ~ in January 2016. "The next ground-based nuclear defense test will be later this month," Syring said. The flight test will involve an air-launched intermediate-range ballistic missile target "full of countermeasures and decoys to gather discrimination data" to increase system performance, according to the director.